Ivey league casinos – Aria opens new Ivey Room

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio is named after Bobby Baldwin and, to this day, high stakes poker players do battle in insanely high-limit games there – anyone else remember Tom Dwan talking about $10k/$20k limit Triple Draw and million-dollar-buy-in, $2,000/$4,000 PLO?

The Aria Resort and Casino at the recently built CityCenter in Las Vegas is taking this idea but with an even more world-renowned poker player. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Ivey’s room – The Ivey Room.

The room opens on May 22 and to celebrate, the Aria are holding a $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament with a $100,000 bounty on the head of Phil Ivey. The winner of the tournament gets to play Ivey for $250,000 heads-up.

Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”